This flower curls right around like a curly cue. You can make it as full/long as you want to while using any combination of petals.

Make a chain of 31.

Row 1: work a single crochet in the second chain from the hook, chain 2, skip 1 chain, work a single crochet in the next chain. Continue across. This is not a project that has to be precise. If you end up with an extra chain at the end, go head and make the last chain 2 and single crochet right next to the last single crochet. With this chain amount you will have about 15 chain 2 loops.

There is a variety of ways to make the petals. You can make your petals all the same or make them all different.

This is a double thick crochet potholder made with crochet cotton yarn. I have been guilty of making these potholders out of acrylic yarn in the past. However acrylic yarn will burn and melt with heat and hot items. I only recommend using cotton.

Materials
Size 10 steel crochet hook
Size 10 Thread
Tapestry NeedleRound ornament or ball 7 inches/18 cm around - You can also use the plastic children play balls for a non breakable ornament or Styrofoam ball wrapped in fabric.

Work a chain of 5, join with the beginning chain.

Round 1: Ch 1, *SC through the loop. CH 4 SC through the loop. (complete 7 times total from *) CH 1, work a HDC to join. (8 loops total)

Round 2: Ch 1, *SC through the loop. CH 4, SC in the same CH, CH 4, SC in the next CH. (complete 7 times total from *) CH 4, SC in the same CH, CH 1, work a HDC to join. (12 loops total)

Straighten each individual section out so the twist is turning one way. Once that is accomplished, join the two sections together, twisting them together to form the candycane. Once they are evenly twisted, secure each end with yarn so they won't come apart. Sew in all the tails. Run a pipe cleaner through the center of the candycane. Twist the yarn section in the direction to tighten the yarn on the pipecleaner. This will grab the fibers of the pipecleaner tighten it up nice and neat. You can hotglue or dab craft glue to the pipecleaner and yarn so it will stay in place and not come apart. Shape project in to a candycane. I have found that fishing line or clear craft line will work very well…

If there is no indication to go through the front loop of a stitch or back loop, what I do is put my hook below both loops. The reason is that I find it looks nicer and will be more secure than one loop. For example, when I was first learning to crochet, I was following instructions from a leaflet I had purchased. It was for a shell afghan. The instructions were telling me to put the hook through the back loop of the single crochet. By the time I was done, I had big holes with each shell I had made. The shell is a heavy combination of crochet stitches, so it is bound to pull on the individual strand creating big holes. Going under two strands will keep it more secure and evenly distribute the slack. That taught me to go through both loops of the single crochet for that pattern and any other pattern that does not have a decorative purpose. I also recognized that many of the patterns were advising to go through the back or front …